Information Technology Assurance and Security

The Department of Computer Science has undertaken an initiative
in Information Technology Assurance and Security, which includes
software reliability, information assurance, and computer and
communications security.
Recent developments in this initiative include the following:

Florida State University has applied for
the NSA Information Assurance Education and Training
Scholarship Program that will provide support for students to
study in the field of information assurance and computer security.
Students who wished to pursue this opportunity for Fall 2002 were
required to submit their applications by May 6th 2002. We expect
this will be a yearly process. Students who did not apply in
the last round should keep their eyes open for the next round.

Another security-related research project in the department is
the AMISS
Project, an approach to (physical) intrusion detection based
on neural network and expert system technology sponsored by
Los Alamos National Laboratory.